Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess, born Gladys Marie Deacon in Boston, made no reply. By last week she was used to the peculiar ways of the Duke, fretful Charles Richard John ("Sunny" for Sunderland) Spencer-Churchill, 61, 9th of his line...
Hero Göring. On the platform deep-chested Premier Göring roars thrillingly, paternally about "My People!" He strikes with peculiar effectiveness the Nazi keynote that beaten Germany is now in a period of glorious Resurgence...
Meanwhile the A. N. P. A. had incurred the wrath of various publishers by its advice to them fortnight ago to refrain from adopting the President's blanket code. The A. N. P. A.'s reason: newspaper publishing "is not an industry but an enterprise of such peculiar importance as to be especially provided for in the Constitution of the U. S. . . . whose independence must be jealously guarded from any interference which can lead to or approximate censorship...
...kingly way," said Marshal Muto when he set up his Changchun Govern ment last year, "is to guide the policy of Manchukuo in a spirit identical with the glorious regime of benevolence and justice peculiar to our imperial destiny to control the moral and spiritual advance of the world...
Whittier "really deserves a place with Walt Whitman among our great American poets," unconvinced readers may still prefer James Russell Lowell's dictum: "If we should attempt to depict the peculiar characteristic of Whittier, we should say that of all poets he most truly deserved the name orator...